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What Does Today’s “Dream House” Look Like To You?

We’ve come a long way since cave man evicted the dinosaurs (Cavasauria relocatus) out of their caves and called the new dwellings, “Home.”

Over the centuries, we’ve added novelties like front doors, windows, partitioned off rooms, incorporated cooking and toilet spaces, added moats and artillery partitions and decks and patios and playsets and basketball courts and horizonless swimming pools.

We’ve experimented with putting the kitchen in the basement and on the 2nd floor; we’ve wrapped our homes around our garages and we’ve experimented with a variety of flooring surfaces and ceiling and wall decorations.

We’ve created formal entries, tried putting the kitchen right off the entry door, put the bathroom between two bedrooms and at the end of the hall and stuck a half bath off the kitchen in townhomes and put bathrooms inside of bedrooms and keep asking ourselves if we want the kids to sleep on the same floor as us or should we sleep downstairs with them upstairs or maybe we should have the upstairs . . .

We have homework, so we need desk and office space and a place to put the Computer and maybe a Media Room and we need Storage so we can take advantage of all those Great Deals at Costco . . .